spiritual scholar

Sun Sheng

Su Xiao quickly understood the number as well.

"No problem," Feng Xingchen said, putting down his doubts. "It seems that the dream creature was truly killed by you. However, after you go home, you still need to pay attention to any peculiar nightmares."

"I've sent you Dr. Li's contact information. If anything happens, you can contact her. She is an excellent psychologist. Don't keep things bottled up; you can talk to her."

Su Xiao smiled and shook his head. "It's just a dream. I know it's a dream and won't develop any psychological shadows from it."

Feng Xingchen didn't say anything further.

Su Xiao asked, "Can I leave now?"

"Just go through disinfection, and you can leave. Come back for a check-up in three days, and remember to wear a mask."

...

Su Xiao walked out of the hospital.

"My mental strength has reached the third tier... I wonder if it's the third tier of Wuqi or Juezhao."

"It seems that the mental strength I accumulated during my past training wasn't wasted. I don't have a curse star to carry this mental strength; is it carried by the puppet instead?"

"Speaking of which, Rosalie also has the third tier of Wuqi, and she's three years younger than me."

Su Xiao was annoyed for a moment, then suddenly smiled.

"As long as I can become a cultivator, it doesn't matter how long it takes."

"Although the golden age for cultivation is before twenty, I'm still in the silver age. I might not earn the title of genius."

Outside the hospital was a sizable garden. A beautiful girl with short black hair in a Western-style plaid dress, wearing an external power skeleton and a sword at her waist, was sitting quietly on a bench with a silver suitcase beside her.

"You're out~?" Rosalie waved at Su Xiao when she saw him come out.

"Yes, I'm done. How about you?" Su Xiao asked.

"I found a place to take a shower and change my clothes. I thought you'd be in quarantine for a while, but it didn't take long at all..."

Su Xiao walked up to Rosalie and suddenly smelled a faint scent of blood.

"I wasn't asking about that," Su Xiao frowned. "Did you kill someone?"

Rosalie nodded slightly and said, "They came looking for me. I went to that hotel you mentioned and found some cultists..."

"I didn't kill any ordinary people, only the practitioners and the evil creatures there."

"You could have waited for the emergency rescue team to deal with them..." Su Xiao had a headache.

"They came looking for me," Rosalie quietly repeated. "According to the Emergency Situations Act, I have an obligation to actively address threats during emergencies."

"Besides, you got hurt because of them."

Su Xiao didn't say anything more; there was nothing to preach about.

"Nineteen years old, already an adult."

"Let's go home."

"Okay."

Su Xiao checked the map and found a taxi nearby.

They waited a short while, and an unmanned taxi arrived.

This car was quite different from the taxis commonly seen a decade ago. The biggest difference was that it had no driver's seat, freeing up more space for passengers.

Currently, human-driven vehicles were mostly banned on urban roads, which were controlled by the Hongjun Network's unmanned cars to maximize safety and efficiency.

In the Hongjun-controlled traffic system, a human-driven vehicle would significantly disrupt the entire system. Driving was a skill mostly retained by the military, transport vehicles, racing enthusiasts, and people in underdeveloped areas.

Su Xiao thought of the old ice cream man’s Hell Dragon ice cream truck and sighed, hoping the old man’s truck wouldn’t get confiscated by city management.

Rosalie leaned quietly against Su Xiao, her hands moving in the air, seemingly playing a game.

"By the way," Su Xiao asked, "do you have holidays this year? Why did you come back so early?"

"It's not a holiday," Rosalie said while playing her game. "I couldn't tell you before because it was confidential, but now I can."

"Hmm?" Su Xiao was curious.

"Check the trending searches, the top one, and you'll know." Rosalie smiled.

Su Xiao looked at the trending searches.

The top search, marked with fiery red text, had over three billion hits.

"Today's big shout for Sun Dasheng!"

Trending #1:

"Solemn mourning for our soldiers who sacrificed in the Xiping Secret Realm."

Trending #2:

"Saint Sun kills the evil king; Zhongxia gains another sage-level combat power."

Trending #3:

"Great victory in Xiping Secret Realm; there is no war in the west tonight!"

Trending #4:

"Saint Sun: Evil creatures see us as mortal enemies; why should we show weakness?"

Su Xiao was astonished and had a vague guess. He clicked on the first news item.

Authorized by the Zhongxia Military, Master of the Human Dao, Zhou Wenlun, ordered the Western Military Region to launch a "sweeping" offensive in the Xiping Secret Realm, recently achieving victory.

In the Xiping Secret Realm, Saint Sun used his second-tier life curse, "Eight-Nine Arcane Arts," to infiltrate the enemy's core, employing guerrilla, mobile, special, and hyperwar tactics to disrupt the evil creatures' deployments. Three marquis-level evil creatures attempted to besiege Saint Sun, with one slain and two repelled.

Our army pursued the victory, eliminating 226 demon-level evil creatures and tens of thousands of vassal-level ones. 1,141 soldiers were lost. As of now, the Xiping Secret Realm has been liberated.

Despite the plain official tone, Su Xiao grew more excited as he read.

He clicked on the comments section below.

"Saint Sun is awesome!!!!!!"

"Great victory!"

"Slaying the marquis, so satisfying!"

"Pacify the secret realm! Avenge the victims of the Wind Mother incident and all emergency cases!"

"Another sage for Zhongxia!"

...

Su Xiao scrolled through the comments, feeling the internet world turn into a sea of joy.

Through the car window, he pressed his augmented reality glasses and indeed saw virtual fireworks and firecrackers being set off in celebration.

"You were fighting earlier?" Su Xiao looked at Rosalie.

"Yes, and we won." Rosalie nodded, raising her fist, "A great victory!"

She laughed, stopped playing the game, and began explaining:

"Commander Sun used the second-tier life curse 'Eight-Nine Arcane Arts' to infiltrate the evil creatures, transforming into their likeness. Then, with the third-tier curse star 'Avatar' and other aids, he turned the entire Xiping Secret Realm into a pot of soup. The evil creatures couldn’t catch Commander Sun, with his avatars everywhere. Any evil creature could be a disguised commander. The evil creatures went mad and eventually charged at our long-prepared lines, where we had a positional advantage and beat them fiercely."

"Finally, three marquis-level evil creatures attacked our defenses to draw out the commander. He killed one, and the other two were driven off. After our victory, we counterattacked, and the evil creatures were so disorganized they couldn’t mount effective resistance..."

Su Xiao exclaimed, "This seems to be the first time a second-tier life curse user has killed a marquis-level evil creature and become a sage-level combat power, right?"

"Yes, the first time!" Rosalie smiled.

Su Xiao pondered, "The Eight-Nine Arcane Arts, that's a very powerful second-tier life curse."

Unfortunately, the commander developed it himself; no evil creatures know it, so Su Xiao can’t draw it in a lottery.

"However, it might be possible..." Su Xiao's eyes lit up.

He vaguely recalled that there was a theoretical method to "synthesize" higher-tier life curses if one awakened several specific life curses.

But that method seemed purely theoretical with little practical evidence.

"I'll check the data when I get back. If it's feasible, I might not need to figure out how to kill a marquis-level creature as an ordinary person..." Su Xiao thought.